Naked Gun 33 ⅓: The Final Insult 

Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), the pride of the LAPD, has retired but is called back into action for an undercover assignment in a prison. This third chapter offers a few…

The Naked Gun 2 ½: The Smell of Fear

Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) stumbles over a conspiracy hatched by powerful representatives of the oil, nuclear and coal industries. This sequel is quite similar to the 1988 original; Priscilla Presley’s…

Love Actually 

Writer Richard Curtis’s directing debut is one big, loveable mess, a romantic comedy with a huge cast of people who keep falling in love with each other. There are too…

3rd Rock From the Sun 

This sitcom became an opportunity for the versatile actor John Lithgow to tickle our funny bone – and he was good at it. The show featured four aliens that came…

Shakespeare in Love: Bringing the Bard to Life

Gwyneth Paltrow. Photo: Miramax Let’s say William Shakespeare knew how to time travel. Let’s say he came to 1998, went to the movies and saw John Madden’s film Shakespeare in…

Frasier: The Finer Things in Life

Photo: NBC I have a special love for this show. There are certain traits in the character of Frasier Crane that reminds me of myself. The close but competitive relationship…

‘Allo, ‘Allo: Getting Along in Nouvion

Carmen Silvera and Gorden Kaye. Photo: BBC Throughout the 1970s, David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd were reaping the rewards of having created one of the most successful British sitcoms of…

Cheers: Always Glad You Came

Photo: NBC When I became old enough not to be thrown out of bars, I had this silly idea that I might find my own “Cheers”. You know, a place…

Scary Movie 3

So, this is when they got rid of the Wayans brothers and hired the people who virtually created this genre, including David Zucker. Primarily, The Ring and Signs are spoofed,…